by Adel al-Salmi | Jun 30, 2017 | World
London- Ebrahim Raisi, who lost in the Iranian presidential elections, met Thursday with Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force Qasem Soleimani and chairman of the Assembly of Experts Ahmad Jannati in addition to the members of the National...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | May 25, 2017 | Opinion
It was interesting that the arrival of the US president Donald Trump in Riyadh in his first foreign visit since taking office should coincide with the election of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani for a second term. Avoiding the temptation of ‘conspiracy theory’, I...
by Adel al-Salmi | May 18, 2017 | World
London- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stressed the need for the Iranian Army to remain neutral during Friday’s parliamentary elections. In his last electoral speech in the city of Mashhad on Wednesday, Rouhani who is running for the elections as a “reformist”...
by Adel al-Salmi | May 16, 2017 | World
London – Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi announced on Monday his support for President Hassan Rouhani, who is running for a second presidential term in next Friday’s election. Karoubi and another reformist leader Mirhossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra...
by Adel al-Salmi | May 13, 2017 | Features
London – Twelve years after running as mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Qaliba will attempt for a third time to run for the presidency in Iran. He had in recent months however faced real estate corruption scandals, but that has not deterred him from registering in the...